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When it comes to supplements for BJJ, or any other sport for that matter, almost everybody giving you advice is either lying to you. Or at the very least, deluded by wishful thinking…
And just to alienate even more people, by the term 'supplements' I'm including most vitamins, minerals, ergogenic aids, pre-workout drinks, post-workout shakes, homeopathic medicine, herbal concoctions, chinese medicine, and all the other products offered by the supplement-industrial complex.
Many of the supplements used by grapplers and MMA fighters originate in the bodybuilding world. But bodybuilding books, magazines, and websites are a HORRIBLE place to get information about supplements because there's a TON of money to be made pandering to the dreams of skinny adolescent boys.
I can sympathise, because like many adolescents boys I went through a phase of wanting to get huge myself. My personal goal was to make it to 240 lbs drug-free and still be lean enough to have visible abs. I rationalised this by saying it would help me with my jiu-jitsu, which didn't actually work at all, but anyway, kudos to young Stephan for having highly specific goals.
My quest for drug-free hugeness led me to the world of bodybuilding supplements. I read a ton of the *ahem* literature and spent quite a bit of money on the latest pills, powders and potions.
And the main effect of all these supplements was that my urine became quite expensive!
Now if you've been an observer of the bodybuilding world for as long as I then you've seen many supplements come and go.
Remember inosine? There was a time when the magazines were full of 300 lb steroid gobbling monsters with 5% bodyfat swearing high and low that inosine was the key to their immense bulk and shreddedness.
Nobody takes inosine now.
The list of where-are-they-now supplenents grows longer every year: Inosine, Dimethylglycine, Trimethylglycine, Selenium, Hornet Juice, Turtle Blood Soup…
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The main strategy of the supplement industry is to stay one step ahead of the science. It's easy to make wild claims about the miraculous properties of fermented Siberian horsetail.
For anyone else to test or debunk those claims requires multiple double blind randomised trials. But doing multiple, double blind, randomised, peer-reviewed trials requires a boatload of time, money and academic brainpower. Setting up proper experiments IS A HUGE AND VERY COMPLICATED UNDERTAKING.
Is it actually in best interest of the supplement companies to spend the time and money to do this research? Do they really want to take the risk that their product doesn't work, or isn't safe? I think not!
The built-in delay that occurs between the release of a new supplement and its debunking gives the promoter/manufacturer/distributor/retailer of fermented Siberian horsetail a couple of years to profit from their foul-tasting capsules. A couple of years to fleece unwitting customers. And a couple of years to line up their next wunderproduct that they can promote once people become disillusioned with their last supplement.
Basically supplement manufacturers spout false claims based on bad science faster than anyone can possibly debunk them.
Whenever someone tells you about a hot new supplement, follow the money! Ask yourself who's benefiting from sharing information about a given supplement with you? The ancient Roman orator Lucius Cassius said it best, "cui bono?" – who benefits?"
For example, take those big, shiny bodybuilding magazines. Did you know that subscription and newstand revenues don't even come close to covering the production costs of those magazines? The profit in those magazines comes from selling advertising space, and those advertisements are mostly to sell supplements.
And then there are the fake blogs which rant and rave about the magical effects of a given supplement. Fake, fake, fake! Google has cracked down on this a little bit, but we're still dealing with a multi-billion dollar industry so I'm sure that the same rats who were doing this originally have now found different tricks.
The sad truth is that elite bodybuilders get that way because they combine good genetics, heavy lifting, and enormous amounts of chicken breasts with anabolic steroids, insulin and growth hormone injections.
And it's no different when it comes to other sports.
Cyclists winning the Tour de France doped to the gills. Once upon a time they thought that smoking cigarettes before a race 'opened up the lungs', but things have come a long way since then. Now they're using EPO and stimulants for endurance, steroids for recovery, and a dog's breakfast of other illegal drugs. A top cyclist may credit their admittedly incredible achievements to hornet juice or kale shakes, but it's all a smokescreen. The reality is that legal supplements have very little to do with it.
Most UFC fighters are currently on steroids. Or, at the very least, have done steroids at some point in their training cycle.
Consider that there have been quite a few fighters have been busted for steroids. Most shocking to me is that many of them actually had quite average physiques. I'm not saying that they weren't tough fighters – anyone who fights is tough – but they look like they've spent quite a bit of time lying on a couch surrounded by Doritos bags. So if these guys are on the sauce then what does that tell you about the guys who could respectably compete in a bodybuilding competition?
And it's not just MMA: I believe that more and more BJJ and submission grappling competitors are doing the same thing.
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In the defence of these athletes it's not all about getting huge and cut – often the steroids are mostly to help them recover from the beating they take during training.
In the context of this discussion, it doesn't actually matter why elite athletes use illegal doping agents. But when your favourite UFC fighter says that Xyience Xenergy allows him to train for 8 hours a day and then pretends to sip from a closed can at his post-fight interview he's misleading you. You could start his training camp in fantastic shape and drink Xenergy by the caseload, but unless you were also using all his other illegal supplements your body would fall apart within a couple of days.
But what if your training partner is getting great results from some supplement? Is he lying too? Not necessarily, but that doesn't mean that that he's not lying to himself.
One of my toughest training partners once took me aside and told me in a hushed tone how he had SO much more endurance since he started taking dimethylglycine (DMG). Then he told me that he'd gotten his entire rugby team on DMG and they all had great results too.
Well of course I started the dimethylglycine hunt right away! This was pre-internet, so I had to phone just about every supplement store in town, but finally – FINALLY – I managed to find a store that carried this supplement. I drove down and bought three packs.
I diligently took DMG for weeks and weeks, but did my run times improve? Could I go longer and harder on the stairmaster? Did I feel different on the mats? Nope, nope, and nope respectively.
The reason DMG was hard to find is because it had gone out of vogue years ago, mostly because its alleged effects could never be demonstrated in any followup studies.
Wishful thinking is rampant among the newly converted. Everyone is looking for an edge, and thus is vulnerable to being sold expensive snake oil.
Let's say that you had cancer. And let's say that you decided to 'treat' it with super-expensive extract of earwig that your naturopath just happened to have handy. And now let's say that that cancer went into remission. I could never, ever, pry you loose from the conviction that extract of earwig saved your life. You'd be an evangelist to anyone who would listen.
Trouble is, maybe it was something else you did that made that cancer go away. And sometimes cancer does go into remission spontaneously.
And then it turns out that some people who've been miraculously cured never actually had a formal diagnosis of cancer by a proper doctor – they just 'knew' they had cancer, or they'd been told they had cancer by their Reiki practitioner, or whatever…
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Finally, let's consider the placebo effect that occurs when someone is given fake or ineffective medicine but nevertheless has an improvement in their condition.
It turns out that the mind has a very powerful ability to affect the body. If on our way to the gym I give you a sugar pill and tell you that it's a secret supplement used by the Bulgarian weightlifting team then you'll probably set a new personal best on the bench press. That's the placebo effect.
Another example: back when I was in high-school some girls in my class gave a boy a Midol tablet for menstrual cramping and told him that it was a quaalude. A few minutes later he started telling everyone that he was seeing strange colors and streaks in the air. That's the placebo effect, and no, this isn't a story about me! Honest!!
Every study that has ever looked for a placebo effect has found one. So even if your most-trusted training partner vouches for a certain supplement, it DOESN'T mean that it actually works.
Is It Safe?
Yes, some supplements do probably work. But if you're ingesting chemicals produced in a lab then there's always the possibility that you're doing yourself short term or long term harm without knowing it.
Remember Thalidamide? This drug was distributed in the 1950′s and 1960′s as a cure for morning sickness, but ended causing up to 20,000 horrible birth defects in newborn children. Whoops!
Keep in mind that Thalidamide and other medical drugs go through a stringent regulatory process before they're released on the market. But despite safeguards, tests, and clinical trials there are STILL mistakes, accidents and occasional nation-wide recalls.
Now, considering that the regulation of supplements is a joke compared to medical drugs, how many more mistakes would you expect?
Sure, there's testing. And maybe the supplement in its pure form is safe.
But what if the actual supplement that's on the shelves was produced in some Chinese factory that reuses industrial sludge from a neighbouring computer-chip manufacturing facility? Or forgot to extract some carcinogenic solvent at the end of the process. Or added God-knows-what to your creatine powder (remember melamine contaminated dogfood from China?).
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The Supplement Graveyard (or what I used to take)
Over the years I've trained for Judo and BJJ competitions, and was looking for any edge I could legally get. And then there were other sports with different energetic requirements as well. For example, I had to go from being a non-runner to getting a decent time on a 1.5 km time trial to get on the fire department. I've competed in the anaerobic nightmare known as the Firefighter Combat Challenge. I've run in 10 and 15 km races, both on roads and in the mountains.
As I got more and more serious about doing well in each sport there was the corresponding temptation to take more and more supplements purported to help with that specific type of activity.
Along the way I read way too many books on sports supplementation.
Then, to exacerbate the pill-popping even further, I got into the whole life extension literature by Ray Kurzweil and others. Yes, I was going to live long enough to live forever.
At this point my urine became very, very expensive!
Just to show you that I'm not immune from the hype, here's a list of some of the supplements I've played around with over the years. I have to emphasise that I DON'T TAKE ALL THIS STUFF NOW (I'll get to the very limited list of what I take now at afterwards).
Here, in no particular order, is some of what's landed in my supplement graveyard over the years:
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What I Take Now
I take much, much fewer supplements today. My main approach now is having a good diet, being well hydrated, and trying to get enough sleep.
My diet is largely vegan. Tons of vegetables, lots of seeds, nuts and beans, and very little meat.
I drink a lot of water: my current goal is to drink 3 to 4 litres per day (about one gallon).
My sleep – well, I'm not doing so good here. To tell the truth, I know my body would thank me if I had a lot more of it. But I've got things to do, goals to accomplish, and I'll sleep when I'm dead.
When it comes to performing well in a sport like BJJ (and living a long, healthy life) it's important to think about the things that you keep OUT of your body as well as what you take IN. Some people have crappy diets and try to compensate for this with lots of supplements, but this is backwards thinking.
If you're eating at McDonalds more than once a year then worrying about which supplements you should be taking is stupid – it's like a smoker worrying about the carcinogenic effect of pesticides on their tomatoes. If you're eating trans fat, or ingesting tons of sugar, or using artificial sweeteners then there's no point in taking any supplement until you clean up your diet.
Take the low-hanging fruit first by cleaning up your diet, because your diet is your biggest, most important supplement!
But I promised to share the supplements that I take now with you.
Ready? Here goes:
I reserve the right to change this as time goes on, but I can almost certainly guarantee you I'll never get back up to the ridiculous levels of supplementation from 10 years ago!
Let me summarise this article for you…
The biggest effect of most supplements is to make your urine more expensive. The few supplements that do work may not be safe. Most new supplements are backed up with shoddy science at best. Supplements have nothing to do with the performance of elite athletes who are mostly using illegal drugs. Your friends will unintentionally mislead you. The placebo effect is real. The benefits of diet, hydration and rest far outweigh the effects of any legal supplement.
Is there anybody that I haven't insulted yet?
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As ALWAYS, great article/post, Stephan
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In and thanks for this. Kinda confirming my growing suspicion lately on the ones I have still been taking - I too have lots in the supplement graveyard though haha.
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Not sure why anyone would be insulted.
It's just an opinion.
Everyone is entitled to one, and yours is well thought out and plainly written, which isn't easy to do concerning the subject matter.
Your overall message is a good one.
Thanks for posting.
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Good stuff and I agree with most of it. A proper diet should be foremost on any athlete's mind, not bridging the gap via GNC.
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Frat. For later.
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Totally agree. The supplement industry is the biggest rip off around. I was like you and use to chase the dragon trying out the newest and best. I was broke for a few years in college, stopped taking sup's, and noticed no difference.
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Good read, thanks for sharing.
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Fish Oil
Protein Powder
The only supplements anybody is going to need to use. Even then when you have a balanced diet you don't need them. Supplements should be there to assist you proper diet should be the main priority.
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Pure -
Telling somoene they are wrong about a health claim is like telling someone they are wrong about their religion.
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Agreed. Next time someone tries to tell you that almonds cure cancer or that drinking enough water cures AIDS...stop yourself from getting upset and trying to explain peer review and the scientific method and just point them to here:
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Acai, brah
The Greens, brah
Gracie diet, brah.
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Chareth Cutestory -NoGiAdcc - Totally agree. The supplement industry is the biggest rip off around. I was like you and use to chase the dragon trying out the newest and best. I was broke for a few years in college, stopped taking sup's, and noticed no difference.
Multi-Billion dollar industry.
What's funny is the profiteers use fear and conspiracy tactics such as "Big Pharma controls the scientists" so instead of trusting peer reviewed, properly controlled studies that are moderated and scrutinized by the worlds top scientists we are told:
"I know this dude that had Super AIDS, the doctors wanted to kill him, but he ate bear shit for six months and there isn't a trace of AIDS left. Of course, the medical industry doesn't want you to know. Anyway, if you wanna buy the purest bear shit check out my online store."
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Sub for later
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Furthermore, a lot of "Alternative Medicine" folks like to claim well established modern medicine recommendations like "proper diet, exercise, stress reduction, etc." as things unique to AM when these have been a part of modern medicine long before AM even had a name.
Anyway, if anything I am saying is interesting to anyone, there is a great article on alternative medicine below that says everything I am trying to say and much more (and much more intelligently):
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what herbs will give me that vaunted popovitch physique?
I wanna show of that type of guns and abs by tuesday
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P.S. I hate needles
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Thanks that was fun to read!
Question: Why have you never tried steroids or anything illegal?
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I couldn't resist posting the 1st Day of School sign that I made for my son to hold in his pictures. If you are looking for something fun for your child's first day of school pictures contact Paper Perfection at firstname.lastname@example.com for pricing and details.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Bachelorette Weekend Invite
I have loved working with Laura for all of the special events in her life from engagement party to wedding and now a bachelorette party for a friend. Here is an invite we worked on together for a fun bachelorette party. Since the weekend event was scheduled in Nashville, she knew she wanted a "Boots and Bling" theme with gold, hot pink and a chalkboard background. If you would like this invite or need a custom invite for your event contact Paper Perfection at firstname.lastname@example.com for pricing and details.
Meet the Teacher - Back To School Gift Tags
It's almost that time to go back to school and Chantel, one my clients that I have worked with on several invitations, contacted me to help her with a few tags to give out during her "Meet the Teacher Night" at school. She knew she wanted to give out blow pops, starburst and a fun candy made to look like a ruler. Here are the tags we created together for her big night. If you would like these tags or a custom design for your next event like a "Meet the Teacher Night" contact Paper Perfection at firstname.lastname@example.com for pricing and details.
Monday, May 4, 2015
Teacher Appreciation Drink Station
I created a "drink station" for my child's teacher appreciation week at school and thought I would show it off for anyone trying to come up with an idea for their school. I was able to use a lot of the employee appreciation soda tags that I sell with my employee appreciation tags found here and I created a custom water bottle label using a school logo I designed. I also created several signs including an "CHS FACULTY IS OUT OF THIS WORLD" banner for the globe, a chalkboard sign that says, "A CHS TEACHER TAKES A HAND, OPENS A MIND & TOUCHES A HEART. THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO FOR OUR CHILDREN!" and finally a smaller sign that says, "THANKS FOR QUENCHING OUR CHILDREN'S THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE THIS YEAR! FROM, THE 2ND GRADE PARENTS". The large chalkboard sign measures 18x24" and I was able to print it like an architecture print for $3.50 at Kinkos.
This is a great and inexpensive teacher appreciation gift that makes a BIG impact. We have 9 children in our class and I asked the parents to help provide 3-5 bottles of soda, tea, etc. So for $5-10 per family we provided enough drinks for our staff to enjoy something fun to drink all week long. I contacted the local sonic about buying ice and they offered to give it to us for free since it was for teachers so I got 60 pounds sonic ice for $0...you can't beat that price and who doesn't love sonic ice!
If you need a few printables to push your teacher appreciation event over the top contact Paper Perfection at firstname.lastname@example.com for pricing and details.
If you need a few printables to push your teacher appreciation event over the top contact Paper Perfection at email@example.com for pricing and details.
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Allergy Marketing Card
I had the privilege of being the event planner for Mt. Pleasant Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic's Grand Opening for their new clinic and they contacted me again to help market their allergy testing this spring. They knew they wanted to give out cookies to doctors that refer patients to them for allergy testing and needed a card to go with the sweet treat. Here is the card that I created for them using the wording they sent me.
If you need help creating a custom card for your next event contact Paper Perfection at firstname.lastname@example.com for pricing and details.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Robin Hood Classroom Party
My child's school is big on having parties to celebrate what they are studying. Different grades have had some really fun parties including an Egyptian party for 5th grade, a Dr. Seuss party for Kindergarten and I was asked to help decorate for my child's Robin Hood party. His grade is studying medieval times and they have read several books including Robin Hood. The teacher contacted all of the parents for help one week before the party and asked me and another mom to decorate the classroom. I usually like lots of time to research and plan decorations but I did my best on such short notice. Since the theme was Robin Hood., I thought it would be fun to turn the classroom into a forest for Robin Hood, his merry men and maidens. I pulled different things that I already had like the metal candle stick holders, lots of greenery, a bow, Robin Hood's hat, gold coins, wooden platters, fresh fruit and loaves of bread. Another parent picked the plates, napkins and cups.
Different parents made food for the banquet including roasted chicken legs, "trenchers" (rolls), fresh fruit, cheese, Ginger "Ale" and miniature cakes. Since the kids were studying the medieval times the teacher wanted to keep food that would have been available during that period and of course they could eat with their fingers.
The kid played several games outdoors including jousting, archery, and tax collecting. The winning team won bags of gold coins.
The kid played several games outdoors including jousting, archery, and tax collecting. The winning team won bags of gold coins.
Of course I had to make some printables to match so I made one a day leading up to the party including a menu, Robin Hood banner, a Proclamation, Sherwood Forest and Nottingham signs and place cards so the children could find their place at each banquet table.
If you would like some of these items for a Robin Hood party or need custom items for your next event contact Paper Perfection at firstname.lastname@example.com for pricing and details.
Monday, April 6, 2015
Silent Auction Camping Item
I think just about everything needs some type of printable tag, label, or sign. I recently helped put together a silent auction item for my child's class for the annual silent auction. We decided to put together a camping kit with just about everything a family would need to go on a weekend camping trip. Here is what we put together including all of the fun printables I created to pull it all together.
Our class parents did such a great job donating wonderful items that we created a second item to donate. A grilling set complete with a s'more kit. Ignore the background as I took this picture in the teacher's lounge at school.
Here are some of the cute tags including one for an item that I thought would make people laugh, but you definitely need on a camping trip. (And it isn't the bucket fire extinguisher.) See if you can find it!
Here are some of the signs and tags a little more close up.
Here is what we included in our camping kit in case you want to make something similar for a silent auction event:
camping tent
folding chairs
sleeping bags
first aid kit
sun screen
bug spray
flash light
walkie talkies
2 kites
bug catching net
disposable plates, cups and utensils
toilet paper
plastic bucket (to extinguish the camp fire)
toilet paper
Grilling Kit:
grilling utensils
smore kit
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Very cool sounding pedal.
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Very cool sounding pedal.
Brian just uploaded this earlier today.
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Vice-chancellor defends Ballarat Uni's international reputation
David Battersby, vice-chancellor of the University of Ballarat has defended the university's reputation in educating international students after a Monash Gippsland student association expressed its concerns about how degrees from the newly created Federation University will be viewed by overseas employers.
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Diona Chu from the International Students Association of Monash University Gippsland says a Monash degree obtained at the Federation University Campus won't be seen as having the same calibre as degrees from other Monash University campuses.
Mr Battersby disputed this saying current students will be able to finish their degrees and graduate "with the Monash brand".
"For all intents and purposes it will be no different to students at Clayton campus," he says.
The University of Ballarat will become Federation University in January next year after merging with Monash Gippsland.
Mr Battersby says all Australian universities have a good reputation with employers internationally.
"It's understandable that there might be a question [in a job interview] about which university, which campus and depending on where you did your clinical or placements... but I think at the end of the day most employers understand Australian Universities, that the brand is a very good brand and calibre of Australian graduates is second to none," he says.
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"One of the challenges is to maintain overseas students as having a presence at the Gippsland campus," Mr Battersby says.
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Gary Gold's Bath Rugby departure "a bolt from the blue, black and white"
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Shocked to see Gary Gold is leaving Bath! Top bloke and judging from what he's done at Bath a top coach. Wish him all the best!— Freddie Burns (@FreddieBurns) December 9, 2013
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.@GaryGoldrugbyiq Thanks for the superb set of youngsters you've brought in. All the best with what you do next— Come On My Lovers (@Bath_COML) December 9, 2013
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Negotiations under way to bring @GaryGoldrugbyiq to Old Sulians. And by "negotiations" we mean "crazy dreams".— Old Sulians (@Oldsuliansrfc) December 9, 2013
Unless a Nick Mallett, S Hansen, Woodward comes in, or Grewcock promoted, hard to see fan approval IF he was pushed #rugby #rugbyunited— Nick Morris (@NJMorris1) December 9, 2013
@bathrugby Tells us absolutely nothing! I seriously think NOW is the appropriate time for us supporters to have a bloody good explanation!— Su Howard (@Bathbird10) December 9, 2013
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Wishing @GaryGoldrugbyiq all the best & you have the fans thanks which is missing from @bathrugby statement for reviving our fortunes!— Darius Mehta (@DariusMehta) December 9, 2013
Regardless of what's happened @GaryGoldrugbyiq deserves a more dignified exit than the @bathrugby statement afforded him. Poor show.— Stand up Bath (@standupbath) December 9, 2013
For one moment I thought it was April 1st...@GaryGoldrugbyiq leaving @bathrugby Not impressed by this announcement, class act #RugbyUnited— David Collier (@davec76) December 9, 2013
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@garygoldrugbyiq thanks for all you've done for Bath GG. One day our once great club will aim for stability to achieve great things again— Olie Mitchell (@OlieMitchell) December 9, 2013
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Gary Gold leaves Bath Rugby
But why? Seems rather sudden.— Graham Bunting (@grahambunting) December 9, 2013
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Patients who are 65 or older on 31st March 2015 are eligible for vaccination, along with any patient under 65 who has any of the following: Chronic Lung Disease, Diabetes, Heart problems, Liver or Kidney Disease, Lowered Immunity, Neurological Disease or is pregnant. To book your vaccination call 01279 621900.
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Normally, when I write a review I try to divorce it from too many self-referential internal affairs — largely because I've learned the hard way that such references age poorly and make little sense a year, two years, or whatever down the road. On occasion however, it's probably worth exercising my right to be inconsistent, and this seems like one of those times when it might be somewhat appropriate to pad this thing out with a preamble, as this is the fist time Teleport City has published a video game review. It's not because we had any particular aversion to such forms of entertainment — I just didn't really play them, and no one had ever offered to write about one for us. I was never particularly good at video games, and it turns out I'm still not very good at them. When I was a kid, I'd waste some time on the Atari and later the Nintendo Entertainment System, but that never lasted terribly long. I was bad at most of the games, and anyway it was sunny outside. While I'm not one of those condescending "you should get out more often and stop playing video games in your mom's basement" assholes, the fact remains that I had more fun stomping around in the woods, falling out of trees, and getting chased by wild dogs — possibly because I was more adept at each of those things than I ever was at Missile Command.
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The pain and glory of watching a Thomas Tang movie is that you never know what you are going to get, but it will almost always be stunningly terrible. Tang, for those fortunate enough to require an introduction, is part of the unholy trinity that also includes director Godfrey Ho and producer Joseph Lai, film makers in only the broadest and most liberal definition of the term. Their specialty, often working in concert, was to take part of one cheap-ass Hong Kong movie, splice it together with parts of a second cheap-ass Hong Kong movie, pepper in some original footage — usually of ninjas, hopping vampires, or white dudes (and by "white dudes" I mostly mean "Richard Harrison") — then dub the entire thing into English in a lackadaisical attempt to make some sort of halfway coherent plot out of the mess. Using this formula, a guy like Thomas Tang could make ten or twelve movies out of just a couple movies, with very little production cost. By the time people paid to see whatever Frankenstein monster resulted from the process, it was too late for them to be pissed off. Thomas Tang — or Godfrey Ho, as the case may be — already had your money.
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Look, I never said I was proud of the things I liked when I was kid, alright? And I'm even less proud of some of the things I watched now, some twenty years later, all excited about realizing how stupid they are only to realize that while, yes, they are pretty stupid, I still don't dislike them nearly as much as I probably should. The fact of the matter is that those movies I saw as a wee sprout camped out on the floor of my friend's house soaking in the warm glow of satellite television absolutely will not budge from their lofty spot of "fun" no matter how much rational thought and taste I apply in my vain attempt to dislodge them, and you all know that I am, if nothing else, a man of impeccable taste.
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I Come In Peace
The fact that this movie is set in eternally balmy Texas and is about Dolph Lundgren trying to kill a hulking Edgar Winter from outer space who shoots razor-sharp CDs at people should in no way distract you from the fact that in at least one scene we see a Christmas tree and some garland, and I think someone mentions Christmas at some point. In my book, that qualifies I Come In Peace as a holiday movie, to be cherished during Christmas time alongside other heart-warming, Teleport City approved Christmas movies, like Gremlins, Die Hard, and at least some of the Silent Night, Deadly Night movies. Although little regarded upon its initial release, back when we were making such films, I Come In Peace has enjoyed a steady growth in its reputation, so much so that if it isn't a much beloved classic for all time, it's at least attained the status of appreciated cult gem.
Forbidden World
There are three Roger Cormans. The first Corman is the director Corman. Working primarily at American International Pictures, young Corman was famous for being able to crank out competent, successful films on time and under budget with a surprising consistency. Although Corman's name is often associated with drive-in schlock, in my opinion most of what he made was, at the worst, adequate for the intended purpose of entertaining the teenagers. And on occasion, Corman directed some genuine classics of genre cinema. His Poe films with Vincent Price, for example, are some of the best Gothic horror films you'll find.
Fallout 3
Many hours into playing Fallout 3, with my character standing on a bluff watching the sun set behind the ruins of Washington DC while Inon Zur's haunting score played in the background, I started contemplating the very nature of video games and when a video game becomes something more than what "video game" often connotes. I played Fallout 3 obsessively for hours on end, often without any direction — sometimes going for days with no interest at all in advancing the actual plot of the game, content to simply wander the post-apocalyptic wasteland listening to Bing Crosby and Gerharde Trede, exploring every point on the game's expansive map, and occasionally gunning down cannibalistic punks and super mutants. I began to wonder if this video game wouldn't be better classified as something other than a video game, or if the term "video game" needs to be radically redefined. Does something as complex and sprawling and open-ended as Fallout 3 deserve to be filed under the same monicker as, say, Space Invaders or Angry Birds or Street Fighter? Or even as more sophisticated but less complex modern games like the Halo series.
To the Stars By Hard Ways
In 2002, I had the possibly once in a lifetime chance to spend an entire summer driving across the United States. My traveling partner and I were able to indulge every whim, sometimes diverting wildly from our vaguely set course in order to visit some out of the way attraction or satisfy some curiosity or whim. Among the many things we both enjoyed was visiting air and space museums. Some we had targeted ahead of time. Others we learned about along the way. Some we stumbled upon entirely by chance out in the relative middle of nowhere. We were, at one point, making our way across Kansas after having already stumbled upon the Mid-America Air Museum in Liberal. We hit a town called Hutchinson, and as we made our way through caught a glimpse in the distance of a couple rockets. Obviously further investigation was warranted, and that in turn led us to The Cosmosphere. By this point in our travels, we'd hit more air and space museums than I can remember off the top of my head, and though I was not tiring of them (who can get enough Ham the space chimp? No one I'd want to know, that's who), what made Cosmosphere one of the best was that a substantial portion of the museum was dedicated to the Soviet space program.
I've got a weird fascination with superhero movies from places other than the USA. Since X-Men (2000) and particularly Spider-Man (2002) demonstrated the possibilities of adapting comic books with a previously unthinkable level of faithfulness to the source material, superheroes have become a staple of Hollywood's output. And with cash tills ringing in spades for all manner of four-colour-inspired heroics (as I write, The Avengers is already the third-highest grossing film of all time and still in theatres), it's no surprise that overseas producers began to wonder at the possibilities. Some looked to their local comic properties for inspiration, such as with Hong Kong's 'a bit like Batman but played by Michelle Yeoh' effort Silver Hawk. Elsewhere, filmmakers just borrowed wholesale from American films, as with Russia's 'Spider-Man with a flying car' Black Lightning, or Thailand's 'Spider-Man… actually just Spider-Man' cash-in Mercury Man. And of course Bollywood, boasting the biggest film industry in the world, was hardly going to miss out.
Silver Hawk
Silver Hawk (originally titled Masked Crusader) is loosely based on a series of popular pulp tales by Xiao Ping, published in Shanghai during the 40s and 50s. These told of the adventures of a masked heroine, Wong Ngang, sort of a female Chinese Robin Hood in superhero garb. The stories were previously adapted into Hong Kong movies and TV shows in the 60s and 70s, with the heroine portrayed by big stars of the time including Connie Chan, Angie Chiu and Petrina Fung Bo Bo. This movie's genesis was rather more down to Earth: producer Thomas Chung was in China doing promotion on The Touch and noticed that Spider-Man was doing bravura business, and decided a superhero movie could make some serious money.
I Am Number Four
I was uhm-ing and ahh-ing about reviewing this one given it's a film with a rather high level of tween-girl appeal, and I didn't want to tarnish my stout-yet-manly Franco Nero-in-Enter the Ninja image. But then Keith admitted to watching Red Riding Hood and I figured why not? Teleport City is after all built on inclusivity, which is the next best thing to build something on after rock and roll. So for the site's no doubt large but silent tween girl fanbase, and anyone else who was just browsing and saw the picture of a cute girl walking away from an explosion, here it is; I Am Number Four.


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Mom, well its Sept 1,2015 , I will be going in at 12:30pm to have my total knee replacement done again . I am ready to have it done because the pain is just getting worse everyday . The one thing that scares the hell out of me is the draining I am having on my left leg from the Lymphodemia. Its good that its draining but if they (hospital ) drs don't keep it wrapped my leg will swell
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Mom , this has been a really rough summer for me health wise . You have been gone for 2 years 7 months and it seems like a life time . I have talked to you a lot this summer . I need to go back in on Sept 1, 2015 to have another total knee replacement on the same knee I had done 2 years this past juse but I have been having a lot of popping and severe
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Mom, Happy 89th Birthday . I hope you are celebrating it with Dad. Mom you are missed so much . I Love you with all my heart . R.I.P
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Posted by: Tina Bilicki - Warren, MI - Daughter Feb 24, 2015
Mom , you left us 2 years ago and 1 month today . I never forget that dreadful day when I got that call stating you had passed away . I will never forgot exactly what I did . I don't ever forget about all the great memories we had through the years . You are missed everysecond of everyday . Mom I Love you & Miss you a lot .
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Mom, I am going through a really emotional time . I just keep thinking about you during this time 2 years ago and it is taring me apart . I am crying a lot and very very moody to everyone and to be totally honest I don't care how they feel . This is about me and what I went through those days that I had to leave you and come home because I got sick and I should of
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Mom, this weekend I decided to put out all the Christmas wooden gift decorations , your son in-law Steve made for you over the years , plus some Santa's I had gotten from you . It was very difficult putting them out , but we did it . An this Christmas is all about you and all the wonderful memories we have had over the years . Also its a very special one for your Great Granddaughter Faith . Mom
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Mom & Dad I just wanted to wish you both a Happy Anniversary . . We think of each of you everyday , and miss you even more . Love your Daughter Tina Marie
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Hi Mom , today was a very special day your granddaughter Stephanie turned 21 tears old . That is hard to believe and her daughter will be 4 months on july 4th . Mom your great granddaughter is so adorable. I just wish you were here to see her and hold her. Steve and I watch her a lot and we love it . Andy came down to see his daughter and bought her a beautiful 21 white roses and
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Mom , today I lost it . I have been crying a lot . Everything is really hitting me hard , if I look at Steve it would just make me call harder I know Its been hard on him for what I am going through and I hate that I am hurting him everyday I don't know to stop it. This Depression is really taking a toll on me . I really wish you were here to help me through this , but I know you are beside me always . Love & miss you so much MOM
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Mom, Happy Easter to you and Dad and the other family members.. I have been going through so many issues to where I actually hit major depression , due to your death, siblings, Stephanie having her daughter and how things happened between us . MOM I have never been so hurt so much in my life I am just going down hill day by day . I have to go see a psycholigists tomorrow before I do any damage to
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Clinton Diplomacy and the Future of Middle East Policy
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on the Brian Lehrer Show, Jonathan Alter, MSNBC analyst and author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One, talked about U.S. foreign policy and his Vanity Fair profile of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Plus: Marwan Bishara, senior political analyst for Al-Jazeera English and host of Empire, a monthly show about global powers, discussed the view from the Middle East with respect to the Arab Spring and the death of Osama bin Laden.
Extreme makeover
Jonathan Alter calls it "one of the least noticed changes in American public life"—Hillary Clinton's quiet transformation from the subject of gossip and controversy into one of the most universally accepted figures in politics. As recently as 2008, during that heated contest with her current boss, she was subject to countless barbs and endless scrutiny from both sides of the aisle. But after a few years on the job, Alter says, it's quite the opposite.
It's been replaced by a general agreement that she's smart, effective, tireless, dutiful—basically a good Secretary of State. That's partly because of an old tradition of politics stopping at the water's edge, at least in some cases, when it comes to foreign policy; partly because of Obama and Pelosi becoming objects of scorn on the Right; partly because she's doing a good job.
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Alter said that while Clinton has managed her post quite well, her tenure within the Obama administration has been marked by a mix of success and shortcoming. She favored the no-fly zone in Libya from an early point, for example, and the White House eventually followed suit. In the case of Egypt, however, Clinton wanted the administration to stop issuing statements undermining Hosni Mubarak. Everyone knows how that ended.
But Clinton's public dissensions and prescriptions highlight a positive characteristic of Obama's administration, said Jonathan Alter: that these varying viewpoints are public at all.
What's interesting, among many other interesting things about this president, is that he actually lets people argue it out sometimes in public. Clinton and Bob Gates, for instance, had a very different view of what to do in Afghanistan and it was known publicly. Leon Panetta, CIA Director, wanted photos released of bin Laden; he was overruled, but able to express opinion—and not just behind closed doors, but on TV.
There's a subtlety to these relationships that have all had their ups and downs, but they all basically work as a team. I think there's less dissension in this administration than in any since probably George H.W. Bush's in the early 1990s.
Killing the alibi
Hillary Clinton might be doing a good job up to this point—especially considering she has to navigate the confusing and turbulent Arab Spring—but her roughest patch may still lie ahead. What to do about Pakistan (and the rest of the Middle East) in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death?
Pivoting from past assessments to future policy concerns, Marwan Bishara joined the conversation. His Al Jazeera op-ed "Killing the Alibi" argues that without the specter of bin Laden, continued U.S. involvement in the Middle East will need a fresh legitimacy. He said that Clinton and other politicians will have a shaky case to make.
Voices from Washington were quite convinced that if only we get to bin Laden, if only we get rid of his senior lieutenants, there will be less reason to stay in Afghanistan and the only reason we're still there is because of him. Presumably he's been killed and now those voices need to come to terms with their own argument.
The new pretext for U.S. national security in Afghanistan and Pakistan is that the Taliban and, more precisely, their relationship with certain elements of Pakistani secret service, and hence I'm afraid we might be up for another battle over the hearts and minds of Americans: whether the U.S. should remain engaged because there's much more to be done in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Pakistan and Afghanistan: Trading places
Bishara had no shortage of criticisms for how the U.S. handled Pakistan and Afghanistan in its hunt for Osama bin Laden. First and foremost, he said, our foreign policy had it backwards: people covering this conflict from the other side of the Atlantic recognized that there were more al Qaeda elements in Pakistan rather than Afghanistan, which makes our protracted presence in the latter and relative inattention to the former extremely troubling.
I would refer to it as a mistaken strategy that treats Pakistan as if it were in the periphery of Afghanistan, rather than the opposite. It doesn't truly take Pakistan's complexity and national security interests into calculation while formulating policy toward that part of the world. Pakistan has historically had a national security interest in Afghanistan, and of course there's historic disagreement or more with India over Kashmir and other big strategic questions.
The fact that none of that is taken into consideration and Pakistan, a nuclear power with over 160 million people, is treated as such will end up making out of Pakistan a far more dangerous country and situation than we've ever seen in Afghanistan.
False choices
In Bishara's assessment of policy decisions that have led us here, nobody comes out smelling nice. Pakistani intransigence is no excuse for the character of U.S. intervention, for example. The scramble to take sides, assign blame and dole out credit in America's "War on Terror," then, is a fool's errand.
In this instance, the use, misuse and overuse of power has been done by the U.S. and Pakistan. I have no respect and no love for the Pakistani military establishment; I have no love lost for American mistakes in the greater Middle East that lead to the death of thousands upon thousands of people. From this very comfortable position of not having to take a stand, it's very important for the American people to understand that neither they nor I need to choose between bin laden and Bush, between Obama and Pakistan leadership, between Mubarak and Netanyahu...All of these are false choices.


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